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- Title
The construction of attitudinal stance.
- Authors
Pérez Blanco, María
- Abstract
This paper is a corpus-based contrastive study of the realization of negative attitudinal stance in English and Spanish discourse through the use of evaluative adjectives. The main aim of the study is to analyse and compare the grammatical patterns in which negative evaluative adjectives occur in each language and discuss the observed cross-linguistic differences in terms of the effects that alternative linguistic realizations have in the construction of evaluative discourse. The working procedure follows a contrastive analysis methodology: description of empirical data, juxtaposition and contrast. The descriptive data have been extracted from a large comparable corpus of English and Spanish newspaper opinion discourse. The study has revealed interesting similarities and differences in the construction of Attitude in each language, which are inferred by contrasting its surface structural features.
- Subjects
DISCOURSE analysis; ENGLISH language; SPANISH language; SIMILARITY (Language learning); CORPORA
- Publication
Languages in Contrast, 2016, Vol 16, Issue 1, p31
- ISSN
1387-6759
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1075/lic.16.1.02per